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News The first ID cards were issued to foreign nationals living in the UK from last November. The cards will be rolled out to the rest of the UK on a voluntary basis from 2011/12. Thousands... [19 Oct 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs on the UK's ID cards scheme. Sir Joseph Pilling will take up the watchdog role from next month, where he will be responsible for... [14 Sep 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit... [18 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The white British card looks rather different to the pink and blue ID cards for foreign nationals, seen here, that were unveiled last November. The card holds similar... [30 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Urban, educated Indians have a multitude of identification cards provided by the government such as passport, driver's licence, income tax payee card and voter's card. No single... [27 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more painful this week after it was revealed that the scheme to hand out the cards to airport staff has cost the... [24 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News ID card costs alone for the 2009/10 year are projected to reach £50m and hit £1.31bn over the 10-year period to 2019, according to the government's latest Identity Cards Scheme Cost... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News IBM's contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven years, despite the possibility that a change in government could scupper the scheme. The NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the... [13 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News This is the latest blow to hit the ID card project - the government has already announced it does not plan to make the cards compulsory and has recently dropped plans which require... [08 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News On Wednesday MPs will vote on secondary legislation under the Identity Cards Act 2006 that will introduce the fee of £30 for enrolling details on the National Identity Register and a further £30 for submitting an... [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News ID card costs for the 2009/10 year are projected to reach £50m and hit £1.31bn over the 10-year period to 2019, according to the government's latest Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report,... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News The government has announced it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Balpa had said it was considering taking legal action against the government if the Home Office continued... [01 Jul 2009]
BT, Intel, Sun team up over identity
News The same situation has led to a proliferation of identity technologies and standards, which often overlap and are often not interoperable, he said, giving SAML, Information Cards and OpenID as examples. [19 Jun 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News The Conservatives have urged a group of technology suppliers not to sign contracts for work related to ID cards, as the party will scrap the scheme if it is elected to power. Damian Green, the shadow... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric Identity Service with a database to support the introduction of biometric passports and ID cards, was awarded to IBM. The government's scheme... [12 Jun 2009]
